If We Administered Psychological Tests to a Set of Students

question 27

Multiple Choice

If we administered psychological tests to a set of students and then placed these subjects into groups with the labels "anxious," "calm," "angry," and "control," what type of variable have we created for our sample?

• A) Ordinal categorical
• B) Ordinal quantitative
• C) Nominal categorical
• D) Nominal quantitative

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